Abuk

Abuk

Abuk is the first woman in the myths of the Dinka and Nuer people of Sudan. The Nuer call her Buk. [cite book
last = Beswick
first = Stephanie
title = Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan
publisher = Boydell & Brewer
date = 2004
pages = 128
url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r61i6BD0Vw0C
isbn = 1580461514] She is the only well-known female deity of the Dinka.cite book
last = Lienhardt
first = Godfrey
title = Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 1987
pages = 89
url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7Y4X9kHeU8C
isbn =0198234058 ] She is also the patron goddess of women as well as gardens. Her emblem is a small snake. She is the mother of the god of rain and fertility (Danka).

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External links

* [http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/africa/african/articles.html Pantheon.org]
* [http://www.textsheet.com/encyclopedia/d/di/dinka_mythology.html Dinka mythology]


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